Im not surprised by this, but I am a little surprised that the Washington Post noticed it. Despite media claims that the Tea Party has gone dormant and that Sarah Palins influence has waned, the candidates she backs for office have an uncanny knack for winning their elections  even when they start far off the pace:

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin  though derided on the left and recently dismissed by former vice president Dick Cheney as a poor pick in 2008  is nevertheless proving her enduring power within the Republican Party in the most concrete of ways: She keeps picking winners.

Similarly, Palin backed Tea Party upstart Richard Mourdock against longtime incumbent Dick Lugar in Indianas GOP primary. Palin endorsed Mourdock late in the cycle, just a couple of weeks before the primary.

Each of five candidates she has endorsed this year who have faced primaries or other campaigns have won, including former Texas solicitor general Ted Cruz, who Tuesday beatthe states well-connected lieutenant governor for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.

She has endorsed just nine Republicans this year  five of them women, according to the Web site of SarahPAC, her political committee. In an interview on Fox News on Wednesday, Palin said that she is making down-ticket races, not the presidential campaign, a focus of her efforts this year. She called Senate and House races so instrumental in reforming government, shrinking it, allowing the private sector to grow and thrive.

This might be easy to dismiss if Palin made a habit of endorsing front-runners, but thats not been the case. Ted Cruz started off at a large disadvantage to Lt. Governor David Dewhurst in practically every metric imaginable.

What was stunning about the endorsement of Mourdock was the chain of events described by the Politico in Indiana on the Friday before the Primary. The Indiana GOP - in cahoots with the SRCC and the RNC - listed a series of events, rallies, phone banks, etc that they were sponsoring for Lugar over that weekend. That went out at 10 AM. At 2 PM that same Friday, Palin endorsed Mourdock. By 6 PM that same night, the Indiana GOP, SRCC, RNC and such WITHDREW all of those events they had planned for Lugar. They basically admitted they cannot compete with her endorsement power.

I see Sarah Palin's influence in the conservative movement as her 'revenge' for the left's non-stop attempts to make her impotent in politics and the GOP carefully stepping aside and letting Palin take the heat. Not only has she carved out a lucrative career on Fox News and for books and speeches but, more significantly, Palin has emerged as a serious force in electoral politics, despite the left dismissing her influence at every turn and the GOP 'elites' disdaining her, as Dick Cheney did recently, much to the left's delight and much to my disappointment. Sarah Palin will not be dismissed or marginalized because she embodies the spirit of America and the TEA party patriots that she represents so well. I don't see Palin ever being subsumed by Washington power politics.

She has endorsed just nine Republicans this year  five of them women, according to the Web site of SarahPAC, her political committee. In an interview on Fox News on Wednesday, Palin said that she is making down-ticket races, not the presidential campaign, a focus of her efforts this year. She called Senate and House races so instrumental in reforming government, shrinking it, allowing the private sector to grow and thrive.

Governor Palin gets it. The only way to keep the nobama candidate in line is a bullet proof conservative congress. This is going to be a difficult job to dismantle the socialist slavery system. It will not be done without control of congress.

We will need EVERY conservative we can get in there, even if
Romney is elected. Romney is no friend to conservatives.
And without a conservative counter-balance, the GOP could
end up spending like drunken sailors when Bush was president.

C’mon, the guy chose her out of 320 million people to possibly be the 2nd most powerful (and potentially most powerful) person in the world! And you’d backstab someone who did that for you two years later? Seriously?!

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posted on 08/04/2012 2:18:49 AM PDT
by 2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)

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